- South Africa's firebrand opposition leader on Saturday vowed to keep using controversial chants that featured in a contentious White House meeting between the US and South African presidents.
- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has called for a radical rethink in the fight against fire disasters in the city’s informal settlements, urging national authorities to adopt community-based power distribution models to address the root causes of frequent fires
- Bangladesh began the first trial on Sunday at a special court prosecuting former senior figures connected to the ousted government of Sheikh Hasina, the chief prosecutor said.
- Nairobi County Governor Johnson Sakaja has announced that all medical bills and extra costs for victims in the deadly fire that killed 8 in Kibra Sub-County will be catered for.
- A field trip by students and their professors ended in tragedy Saturday when their bus crashed in western Colombia, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11, their university said.
- The mass revocations have been cast as part of a reformist agenda spearheaded by Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who dissolved parliament and suspended parts of the constitution five months after taking power in December 2023.
- US President Donald Trump defended on Sunday his administration's move to block foreign students at Harvard after a judge suspended the action, branded by the top university as unlawful.
- U.S. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.
- A family at Ugambe village in Ugenya sub-county is now stranded after a burial of their son was abruptly halted following a dispute between his two wives.
- Russian strikes killed at least nine people in Ukraine overnight to Sunday, officials said, as Kyiv and Moscow traded fire amid an ongoing major prisoner swap.
- At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.
- A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv Saturday wounded at least 15 people, even as Russia and Ukraine continued the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Moscow's invasion.
- German police on Friday said they had arrested a woman after at least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the northern city of Hamburg.
- Niger has asked that some Chinese employees working on oil projects leave the country, documents seen by Reuters on Friday showed, a move that could affect dozens and further strain bilateral ties.
- Harvard University's links to China, long an asset to the school, have become a liability as the Trump administration levels accusations that its campus is plagued by Beijing-backed influence operations.
- Indonesia plans to announce economic stimulus measures on June 5 to revive activity and boost consumer purchasing power, hoping to push economic growth to around 5% this quarter, the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Saturday.
- Elon Musk's social media platform X was largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted tens of thousands of users in the United States on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, following which he said that he is "back to spending 24/7" at his companies.
- Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General Humphrey Wattanga was put on the spot to explain why the agency is backing a controversial clause in the Finance Bill 2025.
- Lawyers representing Juja MP George Koimburi, along with residents of Juja, are demanding that the government produce the legislator, who went missing on Friday.
- President William Ruto has appointed Former Taita Taveta County Governor, Granton Samboja, as the Non-Executive Chairperson of the Pyrethrum Processing Company of Kenya (PPCK).
- Both new and existing users will be required to verify their ages using their national Identification Cards before accessing social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn if a new bill is passed into law.
- Immediate former Chief Justice David Maraga has underscored the need for democracy in East Africa and downplayed allegations that they had plans to interfere with the internal affairs and politics of Tanzania, which led to the detention of activist Boniface Mwangi for several days before he was…
- Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has once again called on government officials in Tanzania to protect the country's interests from people she claims are outsiders out to destabilise her country.
- As surprise, celebrations, or disappointments stream in following the announcement that Senator Gloria Orwoba lost her nominated position after Speaker Amason Kingi officially declared her seat vacant, all parliamentarians should know that Kenyans are keen to politically punish them.
- Leaders allied to former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua are demanding that the government make public all recent agreements it has signed to determine the current custodian of the public seal.
- The National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) seized over 5,000 litres of illicit alcohol and confiscated narcotics during a major multi-agency crackdown in Narok County.
- The Nairobi City County Government (NCCG) has notified land owners in Kasarani, Embakasi East, Embakasi West, Embakasi Central and Embakasi North that it is in the process of enrolling new properties into its Land Rates Database
- Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei and Githunguri Member of Parliament Gathoni Wamuchomba have called for Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen to resign, arguing that he is unfit to handle the ministry.
- At least eight people have been confirmed dead following a devastating fire that broke out early Saturday morning in the Kichinjio area of Makina, within Kibra Sub-county in Nairobi.
- The United States government has called for investigations into the allegations of human rights abuses involving activists Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire at the hands of the Tanzanian authorities.
- Pakistan’s aviation authority said on Friday it would extend a ban on Indian airlines using its airspace for another month, after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.
- Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday over its decision to revoke the Ivy League school's ability to enroll foreign students, ratcheting up White House efforts to conform practices in academia to President Donald Trump's policies.
- A Ugandan court on Friday denied bail to veteran opposition leader Kizza Besigye despite exceeding the six-month legal limit for detention without trial.
- The spending bill passed by the U.S. House increases a tax the richest private universities pay on their endowment investment gains, a move proponents say reins in "woke" schools but that critics say will wind up hurting the poorest students the most.
- India will push the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global financial crime watchdog, to add arch-rival Pakistan back to its "grey list", and oppose upcoming World Bank funding to Islamabad, a top government source in New Delhi said on Friday.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the leaders of France, Britain and Canada of wanting to help the Palestinian militant group Hamas after they threatened to take "concrete action" if Israel did not stop its latest offensive in Gaza.
- European, American and Canadian authorities have taken down over 300 servers worldwide and issued international arrest warrants against 20 suspects in a crackdown on malware, EU agency for criminal justice cooperation Eurojust said in a statement, the latest phase in Operation Endgame.
- Donald Trump's administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enrol foreign nationals, putting the future of thousands of students at risk, with China on Friday slamming the "politicisation" of educational exchanges.
- Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire has narrated how she was detained and tortured by the Tanzanian authorities before being dumped at the Tanzania-Uganda border last night.
- Chief Justice Martha Koome has appointed the same bench that her deputy, Philomena Mwilu, had previously selected to hear petitions on the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua as Deputy President.
- The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and audit firm KPMG East Africa are among entities that have opposed a clause in the Finance Bill 2025, which seeks to grant the Kenya Revenue Authority automatic access to trade secrets and personal data.
- The construction of the Green Park underpass, located at the intersection of Uhuru Highway and Haile Selassie Avenue and designed to ease pedestrian movement and facilitate smooth traffic flow into the central business district, is nearing completion.
- Felix Osano has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Nairobi Hospital, taking over from James Nyamongo, who held the position until December 2024.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has urged the international community to take bold and coordinated action to safeguard the world’s oceans and end plastic pollution.
